Neutron Production Rates by Inverse-Beta Decay in Fully Ionized Plasmas
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-18 v2
Abstract
Recently we showed that the nuclear transmutation rates are largely overestimated in the Widom-Larsen theory of the so called `Low Energy Nuclear Reactions'. Here we show that unbound plasma electrons are even less likely to initiate nuclear transmutations.
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@article{arxiv.1401.5288,
title = {Neutron Production Rates by Inverse-Beta Decay in Fully Ionized Plasmas},
author = {L. Maiani and A. D. Polosa and V. Riquer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5288},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 Figure, minor revisions and clarifications, results unchanged. To appear in EPJC